Intro to Programming

Cues: Where am I?

• What does the prompt look like? >, $, >>>, %

  • Indication of what language the computer expects
  • R, Terminal (BASH, ZSH, CMD, Powershell), Python

• How do you run the code?

  • python3 <file.py>, Ctrl/Cmd + Enter, hit Enter, …

• What folder is the computer looking in? (working directory)

• What program are you operating in? (RStudio, Cmd.exe, Terminal, etc.)

Scripts

Homework 2 will ask you to download and run a script in Python.

![Right click -\> Save Page As... -\> `madlibs.py` ](images/clipboard-2196485650.png){fig-alt="A screenshot of the madlibs.py file linked in Homework 2, with the instructions on how to save the file: Right click, save page as, and give the file the name `madlibs.py`."}

Scripts

• Navigate using the terminal so that you are in the same working directory as madlibs.py

  • You can get the file path in Windows by navigating in the file browser to the file, and Shift-Right click -> Copy as path

  • Mac should allow you to open a terminal in a folder with shift-click (I think)

Scripts in RStudio

• Then, open the script in RStudio

• Can you run it in RStudio somehow?